Mission: 

We feel that the environment should be protected without compromise. Pure Nature takes a decidedly different approach towards environmental issues. We believe in using all the resources we have at hand, ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkey-wrenching. We feel that compromise will continue to play into the hands of more powerful, monied interests that seek to gain from widespread growth, development, and resource extraction and therefore take a stance of radical environmental protection.

Interests:

  • accept no compromise when it comes to the environment
  • protect all life in all of its forms, whatever it takes
  • organize tree sits to prevent the logging of forest land
  • work to restrict all vehicle travel from non-residential roads in the forest area
  • seek alternative energy sources and reduce reliance on water and other resources

Positions: 

Pure Nature advocates neither FuturePlan or SmartPlan. Instead, they advocate what they call FuturePlan (their own creation). They feel that both plans are fundamentally flawed in that they allow for destructive levels of environmental encroachment and destruction. They strongly oppose the widespread and largely unregulated growth that FuturePlan would allow and feel that FuturePlan would overburden the resources that local environment is able to support (including clean air and water). Their FuturePlan includes a radical rethinking of urban design and resource use. They feel that automobiles should be replaced by mass transit systems and pedestrian friendly transportation like bicycling should be given priority over current vehicle use. Also, instead of relying on natural resources like coal and petroleum to power the cities buildings and industries, the city should utilize recent advances in wind, hydrogen, and solar power to eliminate the majority of pollutants and byproducts produced by current energy sources. Certain members of the group have been cited as stating that if FuturePlan goes into effect, Pure Nature will "do everything in their powe"r to ensure that their position is heard and growth is "brought to a screeching halt."

Inter-office communications:

Re: Silver County Forest
To: Pure Nature Environmentalists
From: Jay Jacobs
Date: 11/27/03

 
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